Updates

Forums

Why Forums Suck

information is there, but often woolly, that is, in "paragraph" form with bad writing or in response to
something, or several, several pages in

they all look awful, with tacky ads everywhere

the "date joined" timestamp is often more
prominent, or in a place I don't expect it to be, so I dismiss
the timestamp as being too old when in fact the comment or post was
recent

the URLs are unpleasant and the forum hierarchy is almost always unintuitive

long, repetitive signatures ON EVERY COMMENT are
annoying.

there's an article to be written, however, on the history of the "accomplishment signature." You know, like in mobile forums, people will list which phones they have or have had; system administrators will list which distribution of Linux or kernel they prefer; and even transportation buffs will list which cruise/rail tour they've taken recently. Especially if the signatures are dynamic, this is a compelling look into the currency of what people consume even if the forums they've commented on/posted to is old.

forums are usually open forever, with stupid people asking for an update or stupid followups

this is how forums are designed. They are designed to suck!

Changing Forums

The Internet is designed to route around information failures, right? So let's build a Greasemonkey script/user style/Firefox plugin that: